My September article on career advancement continued a series on how to excel on promotional examinations that use an “assessment center” process. The article concentrated on the supervisor-subordinate (also known as the employee-conflict) examination and provided a sample test for readers to take.

In the mock supervisor/subordinate examination the directions indicated that you had thirty minutes to read a scenario and then take whatever action as a police sergeant you deemed necessary to resolve the situation... Full Story

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